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You will enjoy this if you love camping, birds and tracks, if you remember playing outdoors until dark, or if you like tales of friendship with real craft in them.
Che cos’è questo libro
What would you give for one name? Yan, a twelve-year-old in a small Canadian town, presses his nose against a taxidermist's window to read the labels on stuffed birds. One label is turned the wrong way, so one bird stays nameless for years, and it hurts him.
Two Little Savages was written by Ernest Thompson Seton and published in 1903. Seton was a naturalist and artist, and he drew on his own boyhood for this story of two boys who decide to live as Indians. Between the scenes you learn how to lash a teepee, read a track and kindle fire with a bow and a stick.
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- 1A boy hungry for names finds a teacherFree
- 2Glenyan gives the boy a kingdom of his own
- 3Loss, illness and a mother who listens too late
- 4Sanger, the Raftens and a friend named Sam
- 5Learning from a witch and a grumpy trapper
- 6Making everything by hand, the Indian way
- 7Guy Burns and the games of a growing tribe
- 8Camp life teaches practical lessons the hard way
- 9Watching the woodfolk closely
- 10What the book is really about and how it is told
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A boy hungry for names finds a teacher
Yan lives for wild things in a town that has no room for them. His father is poor and stern, and he forbids nature study because he thinks it will spoil schooling. The ban only makes Yan sneak out to the fields.
He has almost no books. His walk to school winds past the taxidermist's shop, where twelve birds carry labels. Yan memorizes them, but the last label is turned away from the glass. He saves ten cents to buy a book on the birds of Canada, and the book proves almost worthless.
Then, one April day, he lies beside a pond trying to see the creature that whistles from the water. A shabby stranger with a Scottish voice shows him it is a tiny frog, the spring peeper. In one morning the man names the flicker, the towhee, the ruffed grouse and many flowers. Yan feels the gift of being understood. He never sees the man again.
A curious child needs someone who answers his questions.
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- LengthAbout 109,700 words
- Reading timeAbout 7 h 40 min
Questions about Due piccoli selvaggi
What is Two Little Savages about?
It follows Yan, a boy who loves birds and Indian lore, from a strict town home to a Canadian farm. There he and a farmer's son named Sam build a teepee, make their own gear and form an Indian tribe.
Is Two Little Savages a true story?
It is a novel, but Seton based it on his own boyhood and outdoor experience. It was published in 1903, and the woodcraft in it, from tracking to fire making, reflects his real knowledge.
Who is Caleb Clark in Two Little Savages?
Caleb is an old trapper who once lived among the Sioux. He knows how to make a teepee, a drum and a bow-drill fire, and he shares that lore with the boys while carrying an old feud with Sam's father.
Why are the boys called savages and why do they play Indian?
The title is the author's playful word for boys who copy the Indian life they read about. They want to live by woodcraft, making and doing for themselves, and they take Indian names and rules for their games.
Is Two Little Savages worth reading today?
It offers a warm, funny story of friendship plus real how-to detail on tracking, teepees, archery and animal watching. The lively dialogue, short chapters and clear instructions make it easy to enjoy and to use.
Cite this edition
Seton, Ernest Thompson. Two Little Savages. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/two-little-savages.
Seton, E. T. (2026). Two little savages. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/two-little-savages (Original work published 1903)
Seton, Ernest Thompson. Two Little Savages. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/two-little-savages.
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